Folding crib



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M. KBATING.

Fon-DING CRIB.

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UNITED STATES IPATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL KEATING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOLDING CRIB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,102, dated February 27, 1883.

Application led January 29, 1883. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL KEA'IING, of Boston, in the county of SuEolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usei'nl Improvement in Folding Cribs; and I'do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 an end elevation, Fig. 3 a side elevation, and Fig. 4 a transverse and median section, of a crib containing my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims as presented. Figs. 5 and 6 are hereinafter referred to Iand explained.

The crib is similar to, although somewhat different from, that shown and described in 4 the United States Patent No. 257,496, dated May 9, 1882, and' granted to Herbert Greenwood and myself'. I have dispensed with the rectangular fence 0i' such crib, and have pivoted the two leg-frames directly to the cribbody or bedding-holder, and I have combined with the said crib-body and the two leg-frames one or more hooks 4and eyes, each hook being connected to the cross-bar of one leg-frame, and the eye to engage with the hook is fixed to or in the cross-bar of the other leg-frame. When the hook is hooked into the eye the cribbody can be readily reciprocated or tipped laterally rstin one direction and nextiu the opposite. l have also combined with the legfrarnes a pin or bolt andtwo eyes for its reception, all being as represented.

In the drawings, A denotes the crib-body, and B and C the two leg-frames, each of such frames consisting in two legs, c a, and a connecting-bar, b, arranged as shown. The two legs of the frame B cross, and are between and next those of the frame O.` Each leg a is at or near its upper end pivoted to thecribbody at its upper part, and arranged therewith, as shown.

D is a hook whose shank is pivoted to one of the cross-bars b, and E is an eye extending from the other cross-bar, and being to receive and engage with the hook. I usually have two of such hooks and two of the eyes to the leg-frames. Furthermore, to one of the legs of one of the leg-frames I attach, by achain, d, a pin, e, and in the said leg and the next adjacent one, when the crib-body is horizontal,I bore holes in line with each other to receive the pin, or, instead thereof, I tix to each of the said two legs a metallic eye, f, to receive the pin. When the pin is within the holes or eyes the crib-body and `leg-frames will be rigidly held in their positions; but on removal of the pin from the holes or eyes and connecting the two leg-frames by the hook l) and eye E the crib-body may be swung or reciprocated lai:- erally, very much as a cradle is usually rocked, the extreme positions of the crib-body and legfraines, when so moved, being represented in end views shown in Figs. 5 and 6. On removing each of the hooks from its eye, the crib may be depressed, so that the body may rest on the bars of ,the leg-frames, provided the said bars are arranged so as to extend underneath the body when it is down; but if not so arranged the body will rest on the floor. I

l do not herein claim a crib composed of a rectangular felice, a movable bedding-holder therein, and two leg-frames arranged'with and pivoted to the bedding-holder, all as represented in the said Patent No 257 ,490.

I claim- `l. The combination of the crib-body A and the two leg-frames B and O, arranged with and adapted to it, as described, with one or more hooks, D, and an eye, E, for each, adapted to the said leg-frames, as set forth.

2. The combination of the pin e and two eyes, ff, adapted to the leg-frames B and C, with such frames and the' crib-body A, arranged and applied as explained.

3. The folding crib composed of the body A and two leg-frames, B and O, the hook D and its-eyeE, and the pin e and its two eyesff, arranged and adapted substantially as represented.

MICHAEL KEATING.

Witnesses :4

R. H. EDDY, Il B. PEATT. 

